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  1. 3. At Hanford, Fermi inserted the first _______ fuel slug into the B Reactor (an element)
  2. 4. Mendeleev wanted to bring order to the elements which led to the discovery of the _________ __________. (2 words separated by a space)
  3. 8. Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues first discovered/MADE the element _______________.
  4. 9. _______________ (last name) discovered the x-ray.
  5. 10. This is the place in Tennessee where E. Lawrence and the rest of the scientists on the Manhattan Project had success in designing the atomic bomb. (2 words separated by a space)
  6. 11. To create his first table, Mendeleev wrote the p_____________ of the different elements on different cards so he could compare them and move the cards around in an attempt to find order among them.
  7. 14. Dynamite is a stabilized form of n______________ and was invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867.
  8. 16. _____________ is a SUPERHEAVY, synthetically made element with a half-life of less than a thousandth of a second, making it difficult to discover or put into practical use.
  9. 19. Enrico Fermi helped make the first controlled n____________ r______________ (space between words)
  10. 20. The name of Hassium is derived from the German state of ___________ where Hassium was first made/synthesized.
  11. 21. Lise Meitner worked with this famous scientist (last name only; starts with "P")
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  1. 1. One of the major problems that E. Lawrence and the rest of the scientists on the Manhattan Project had to solve was the _____________ of the 2 forms of Uranium.
  2. 2. Georgy Flerov helped discover spontaneous __________.
  3. 5. Curie actively promoted the use of the element _________ to decrease pain/suffering
  4. 6. The man who discovered the x-ray did so when he noticed that the glass tube that he had been using containing ____________ was glowing.
  5. 7. Nobel and his father developed methods to produce nitroglycerin in large quantities for use in c________________.
  6. 9. Marie Curie received a Nobel Prize for her work with this
  7. 12. In 1921, President _____________ on behalf of the women of America, presented Marie Curie with one gram of one of the elements that she co-discovered in recognition of her service to science.
  8. 13. Oganesson is named for the physicist __________ Oganessian.
  9. 15. Glenn Seaborg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the t____________________ elements.
  10. 17. the ACTUAL discoverer of radioactivity
  11. 18. Meitner's nephew; also a famous scientist